TIFF 2016 Preview: Brain On Fire Posted by Wilson Morales
August 16, 2016
Making its World Premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival is director Gerard Barrett’s ‘Brain on Fire,’ starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, Richard Armitage, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Jenny Slate.
Producers on the film include Rob Merilees, Lindsay Macadam, Charlize Theron, AJ Dix, and Beth Kono, while Lisa Wolofsky and Daniel Hammond serve as executive producers. Yaron Orbach is the cinematographer.
An adapation of Susannah Cahalan‘s bestselling memoir, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Moretz plays Susannah, a rising journalist at the New York Post who falls victim to an inexplicable illness that has her hearing voices, hallucinating, battling bouts of paranoia and lashing out during violent episodes. As weeks go by and she rapidly descends into insanity, there seems to be no hope for answers until a lucky last-minute intervention by one doctor gives her a diagnosis and the chance to rebuild her life.
Perry will play Richard, Susannah’s boss at the New York Post.
Broad Green Pictures will distribute “Brain on Fire” in the United States, while partner Mister Smith Entertainment will continue to sell international rights.
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